
Onnig Dombalagian specializes in U.S. and international regulation of securities and derivatives markets and the relationship of federal and state law in the governance of public companies.
Professor Dombalagian joined the Tulane Law School faculty in 2003 and served as the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs from 2016–2020. He previously served as an attorney fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as an associate in Cleary Gottlieb's Washington D.C. office. Professor Dombalagian clerked for the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upon graduating from law school.
Professor Dombalagian has served as a member of FINRA's National Adjudicatory Council and currently serves as an arbitrator with FINRA Dispute Resolution.
He received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 and was a visiting professor at the American University of Armenia in 2000.
Book
Chasing the Tape: Information Law and Policy in Capital Markets, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015
Articles
Texas Gulf Sulphur and Information Disclosure Policy, 71 SMU L. Rev. 713 (2018)
Preserving Human Agency in Automated Compliance, 11 Brooklyn J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. 71 (2016)
Substance and Semblance in Investor Protection, 40 J. Corp. L. 599 (2015)
Principles for Publicness, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 649 (2015)
The Volcker Rule and Regulatory Complementarity, 10 Capital Markets L.J. 469 (Oxford 2015)
Exchanges, Listless?: The Disintermediation of the Listing Function, 50 Wake Forest L. Rev. 579 (2015)
The Expressive Synergies of the Volcker Rule, 54 B.C. L. Rev. 469 (2013)
Proprietary Trading: Of Scourges, Scapegoats, and Scofflaws, 81 U. Cin. L. Rev. 387 (2012)
Regulating Informational Intermediation, 1 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 59 (2011)
Investment Recommendations and the Essence of Duty, 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 1265 (2011)
Requiem for the Bulge Bracket?: Revisiting Investment Bank Regulation, 85 Ind. L.J. 777 (2010)